Writing in Bars: excerpt from a work in progress

I just wrote the first chapter to a new thing I’m working on. Piper and I spent most of Sunday wandering around lower Manhattan inventing bars so I could write a book about it. Maybe we’ll write a book about it. I don’t know. But we came up with a...

Second Week of July in photos

This weekend has been a bit of a rollercoaster, ending with me in serious pain from a pinched nerve in my neck. Which means that my usual weekend photos were mostly of my bed. That said, it was a delightful week in many ways. I took myself on a few more self-dates, I...

From Disgusting Beautiful Immoral

(and excerpt from Disgusting Beautiful Immoral. Read the whole thing in print or e-book here.) “You were distracted last night, Babygirl. You know I can’t allow that, don’t you? If you’re going to suck Daddy’s cock you’re going to need to concentrate much harder.” I...

Dating Myself

A few Fridays ago I was out with a group of friends at a bar, laughing, drinking, talking, and presumably having a good time, when I suddenly realized I wasn’t really there. I was surrounded by people I love, but I was so exhausted, so burned out, and so overwhelmed,...

First Week of July in Pictures

Last week was full of emotional ups and downs rounded out with cocktails, fireworks and good friends. I had a self-date on Thursday, and I spent about four hours reading The Sun Also Rises at a bar near my apartment. Friday I saw Jaws at the Nighthawk, did some...